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- From: jfh@netcom.com (Jack Hamilton)
- Subject: Re: SOUNDEX pattern matching
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.010737.5908@netcom.com>
- Keywords: soundex, perl
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- References: <1993Jan23.025720.1005@Happy-Man.com> <1993Jan23.184532.4933@netcom.com> <1jsco2INN4dd@slab.mtholyoke.edu>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 01:07:37 GMT
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- In article <1jsco2INN4dd@slab.mtholyoke.edu> jbotz@mtholyoke.edu (Jurgen Botz) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan23.184532.4933@netcom.com> jfh@netcom.com (Jack Hamilton) writes:
- >>Soundex is very useful. It's used almost exclusively for English proper
- >>names, I believe.
- >
- >Uh, that makes it pretty useless in the USA and elsewhere in the world
- >except England.
-
- It's not designed to do all things for all people, but a lot of personal
- names in the USA and England *are* English proper names as well as english
- proper names (you left out English-speaking Canada, Australia, and New
- Zealand, along with a host of other places where English is a primary
- language).
-
- The algorithm would handle some non-English names correctly (spanish/
- portuguese Jose, for example), but not all of them (french Louis, for
- example).
-
- I don't know how the algorithms are written for those languages, but it
- ought to be possible.
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